When erecting piles, it is difficult to achieve good results when jacking force is used to keep dantian, while jacking force is yang and dantian is yin.
There is a word called knowledge barrier. Perception and knowledge can help us, but it will also form obstacles to our progress. Where there is yang, there is yin. Pay attention to Zhong Zheng when you first started standing piles, and your body once changed obviously, especially the feeling of relaxing muscles and dredging points. My right middle finger could not be straightened because I held the pen for a long time when I was a student, until my right hand suddenly became round when I stood on a pile, and then my middle finger could be straightened. After that, I spent a long time standing on my arm, trying to find and maintain that feeling of supporting the circle. It was not until today that I felt much more comfortable to sink my shoulders and elbows at the same time, and I realized that it was right to sink my shoulders and elbows.
I once read an article by an elder who practiced boxing by standing piles, saying that the standard pile frame is wrong, because the pile itself, like Tai Ji Chuan, can be said to be a process of error correction, and there is no fixed frame at all. Standing pile focuses on practice, and the pile frame will be fine-tuned when the body is improved.
At first, I only paid attention to upright relaxation, but after a while, the stress on my left and right feet began to be unbalanced. No matter how I adjust it, it doesn't get better, but it gets worse until I can't stand the pile continuously. This is also natural. I want to hang my body with a rope hanging from my head, so that the road of standing piles can continue. However, a few days later, I entered a new dilemma. When standing on the pile, my neck is particularly hard, and I always feel pulled out, but my feet are not stressed. Trying to relax is always hindered by the feeling of finding an empty collar for the first time, with little effect. I can finally relax in the back, but I lost this feeling after 20 minutes in each pile.
Our thoughts are always attracted by what we know and feel now and influenced by what we used to know and feel. It seems that our minds always have to live to move on. If you don't live in it, you will doubt the meaning of persistence.
Buddhism and Taoism say that the highest state of human beings is nothingness, so being with nothingness is yin and yang. Suddenly I don't understand why many slogans and ideas are a single party that advocates yin and yang. I once read an article by a Chinese medicine scholar, saying that yin can nourish people, and people who are strong and thick are prone to sudden death, while those who seem weak and often have minor illnesses live longer. Why? Because weak people have a weak yang, which is destructive and cannot nourish them. I was very impressed at that time, but I don't think so now. Should we encourage people to pursue sub-health? This is obviously wrong.
The combination of yin and yang is the right way to keep fit.